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28-Jun-2003
GSK opens uHTS R&D facility in Spain
28-Jun-2003 - GlaxoSmithKline has opened an ultra-high-throughput screening facility at its site in Tres Cantos, Spain, marking a significant milestone in the company's bid to develop a...
27-Jun-2003
Novo facility covers a third of bulk insulin market
27-Jun-2003 - Novo Nordisk has sent out the first batch of bulk insulin from a new facility at its site in Kalundborg, Denmark, that is producing more...
GSK takes once-daily Requip into pivotal trials
27-Jun-2003 - A new formulation of GlaxoSmithKline's Parkinson's disease drug Requip (ropinirole), developed with UK drug delivery specialist SkyePharma, has entered Phase III testing. The two companies...
Child-safety standards probed by CPSC
27-Jun-2003 - The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has started a review of its criteria to determine whether a drug package meets its child-resistance standards, which have...
Eurand breaks into fast-melt sector
27-Jun-2003 - Italian drug delivery specialist Eurand has made a foray into the market for fast-melt oral tablets that dissolve quickly in the mouth without chewing or...
PhaSeal protects cancer drug handlers
27-Jun-2003 - A closed packaging system that prevents the exposure of healthcare workers to hazardous anticancer drugs, developed by Sweden's Carmel Pharma, has been introduced in the...
25-Jun-2003
Bayer offers biotech capabilities to clients
25-Jun-2003 - For the first time, German chemicals and pharmaceuticals major Bayer is offering a range of products and services from its biotechnology division to third-party customers...
IDEC and Biogen forge biggest bio pairing in 2003
25-Jun-2003 - The resurgence of merger and acquisition activity in the biotech industry shows little sign of letting up, with US companies IDEC Pharmaceuticals and Biogen the...
Brookfield launches QC rheometer
25-Jun-2003 - Brookfield has introduced the YR-1 Rheometer, designed to provide a simple to operate, low-cost alternative to full-featured laboratory rheometers for quality control applications. The new...
Cell culture markets get lift from BSE fears
25-Jun-2003 - The market for cell culture products is getting a lift from stringent regulations from the US Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture, restricting...
Biolex uses plant to make Centocor proteins
25-Jun-2003 - Centocor has entered into an agreement with fellow US company Biolex in which the latter firm will examine the feasibility of producing three proteins using...
Iggesund sees OTC trend key to future growth
25-Jun-2003 - There is a growing trend towards patients self-medicating with over-the-counter products rather than asking their doctors for a prescription medication, and this promises to benefit...
23-Jun-2003
Forum to mull UK labelling guidance
23-Jun-2003 - The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, in collaboration with Management Forum and the National Patient Safety Agency, have organised a one-day conference on...
Nashai Biotech develops API-grade theaflavin
23-Jun-2003 - US company Nashai Biotech has developed a new process that preserves and protects theaflavins, compounds found in tea, when they are formulated into powders or...
KS Avicenna offers biomanufacturing services
23-Jun-2003 - KS Avicenna, the Canadian unit of KS Biomedix of the UK, launched a newly expanded contract biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Canada, to service both North...
Amarin to formulate Parkinson's drug for Acadia
23-Jun-2003 - Amarin Development of Sweden has won a new contract to apply its formulation and manufacturing services to a neurological drug candidate developed by Acadia Pharmaceuticals,...
Policy continuity needed to speed up orphan drug development
23-Jun-2003 - While the procedure for designating drugs for orphan diseases has improved dramatically in the EU, further progress must be made to get orphan drugs out...
Containment facility broadens Solutia's scope
23-Jun-2003 - Applied chemistry company Solutia has completed the latest phase of a new containment facility to support the supply of highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients. The...
20-Jun-2003
GeneMedix links with Malaysian firm for insulin production
20-Jun-2003 - UK-based GeneMedix and Penang Development of Malaysia have signed a letter of intent that will see the two establish a new company in the latter...
MediGene's R&D quits USA for Germany
20-Jun-2003 - MediGene is relocating the entire research department of its US subsidiary to its German headquarters in Martinsried, Munich, to the delight of those who lament...
E-logbook cuts out wrist strain
20-Jun-2003 - CT Consulting Group has developed PharmaLog, a new electronic logbook system for the pharmaceutical industry, which it says enables R&D teams and quality control laboratories...
Biogen draws back from Danish investment
20-Jun-2003 - US biotechnology company Biogen has decided to postpone construction of a large production plant at Hillerød in Denmark, just three months after breaking ground on...
PPL hits the rocks as Bayer jumps ship
20-Jun-2003 - Transgenic drug production company PPL Therapeutics has been rocked by a decision by Germany's Bayer to walk away from their protein development partnership, placing the...
Invesprint sells stake in packager
20-Jun-2003 - Canada's Invesprint, which specialises in providing labels for the pharmaceutical, healthcare, beverage and petrochemical industries, has sold its 65 per cent interest in Jay Packaging...
18-Jun-2003
BASF gets US patent on new polymer excipient
18-Jun-2003 - Germany's BASF has been awarded a US patent covering a new coating agent, binder and/or film-forming excipient, based on polyether-containing polymers, which can be used...
New license shores up BioProtein's transgenics IP
18-Jun-2003 - BioProtein Technologies, a French contract manufacturing organisation specialising in the production of therapeutic proteins in the milk of transgenic rabbits, has licensed rights to technologies...
Prolab evaporator launched in UK by Presearch
18-Jun-2003 - UK-based laboratory instrumentation supplier Presearch has added a new evaporator to its product range that is claimed to allow for rapid evaporation of solvent from...
New API plant for Cambridge Major
18-Jun-2003 - Cambridge Major Laboratories has broken ground on a new facility, near its existing site in Germantown, Wisconsin, for the custom manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients...
Chiral technology driven by pharma industry
18-Jun-2003 - The demands of the pharmaceutical industry are driving strong growth in the market for outsourced chiral technologies, according to Frost & Sullivan , which predicts that...
Laureate Pharma expands protein purification
18-Jun-2003 - Laureate Pharma of the USA has commissioned a new automated chromatography system for Good Manufacturing Practice-compliant purification of protein products. The unit is specifically designed...
Lysine supply to be hit by BASF plant closure
18-Jun-2003 - BASF has announced that later this summer it will temporarily suspend production of the amino acid lysine at its facility in Gunsan, Korea, due to...
16-Jun-2003
DSM revises biologics license with Valentis
16-Jun-2003 - DSM Biologics has dissolved its relationship with fellow Dutch company Qiagen and Valentis of the USA regarding the pAlliance, a consortium for manufacturing and supplying...
Pfizer slashes Pharmacia operations in Japan
16-Jun-2003 - Pfizer has announced plans to dramatically cut production capacities at Pharmacia's factory in Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, in order to improve profitability when the two...
Metrohm launches chromatography degasser
16-Jun-2003 - Metrohm of Switzerland's UK subsidiary has launched a new degassing machine, called the 837 Combi Degasser, that is designed to remove bubbles in eluents used...
New formulations set to transform diabetes treatment
16-Jun-2003 - There has been a steady increase in the number of diabetes-related R&D projects in recent years, and one area of particular interest is the pulmonary...
Great Lakes invests $8m in Welsh facility
16-Jun-2003 - Great Lakes Fine Chemicals has invested $8 million ($6.7m) in a program aimed at upgrading its manufacturing facilities in Holywel, Wales. The company, which produces...
Novartis patents antioxidant container for drugs
16-Jun-2003 - Switzerland's Novartis has been awarded a US patent for a novel means of extending the shelf life of pharmaceuticals. The invention describes the use of...
13-Jun-2003
UK government mulls nanotechnology
13-Jun-2003 - The UK has launched a new independent study to examine in detail the benefits and risks of nanotechnology and make sure that any necessary regulatory...
Surface science improves metal oxide catalysis
13-Jun-2003 - A team of researchers in the USA has now taken the first steps towards the direct synthesis of designer metal oxides generated, with specific surface...
Avantium speeds up process R&D for Eastman
13-Jun-2003 - Avantium Technologies of the Netherlands, a specialist in developing high throughput process R&D techniques for customers in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, has been signed...
CCL buys drug insert firm
13-Jun-2003 - Canada's CCL Industries has acquired Lucas-Insertco, a US company which prints consumer instructional leaflets (inserts or outserts) for the pharmaceutical industry, for approximately C$18 million...
Unigen expands into Europe, Latin America
13-Jun-2003 - Ingredients company Unigen Pharmaceuticals has expanded its sales presence in Europe and Latin America by signing agency and distribution agreements with six international corporate partners....
ConjuChem hopes to raise C$12m in fund-raising
13-Jun-2003 - Canada's ConjuChem, a company specialised in improving the formulation of peptide drugs, has said that it is aiming to raise around C$12 million (€7.6m) in...
11-Jun-2003
PowderJect boosts vaccine development and production
11-Jun-2003 - PowderJect Pharmaceuticals of the UK has announced plans to invest £85 million (€121m) in its facilities in Liverpool. The programme, which is supported by the...
Crucell changes tack with West Nile project
11-Jun-2003 - Dutch biotechnology company Crucell has announced a new project aimed at developing a vaccine for West Nile virus, a flu-like illness that can cause a...
Tepnel lifted by sale of DNA purifier
11-Jun-2003 - Shares in UK company Tepnel Life Sciences closed up a massive 56 per cent to 17.4 pence yesterday after the company announced the first sale...
Waters unveils new products at ASMS
11-Jun-2003 - Canadian chromatography and mass spectrometry specialist Waters has introduced a series of new products at the ongoing Annual Conference of Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics...
Bachem chief looks forward to improved growth
11-Jun-2003 - Switzerland's Bachem SA, which specialises in the manufacture and sale of bulk peptides and related organic chemicals as active ingredients for the pharmaceutical industry, has...
Towards high-throughput proteomics
11-Jun-2003 - Bruker Daltonics has forged a collaborative research and development agreement with the US Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Battelle Memorial Institute that will focus on the...
UCB expects flat profits in 2003
11-Jun-2003 - Belgian pharmaceuticals and chemicals group UCB has said it expects its profit in 2003 to be at a level comparable to those of the previous...
10-Jun-2003
Agilent unveils its first TOF mass spectrometer
10-Jun-2003 - Agilent Technologies has introduced a TOF (time of flight) mass spectrometer to complement its existing quadrupole and ion trap systems. The Agilent LC/MSD TOF product...
Trained staff key to manufacturing QC
10-Jun-2003 - As the US Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory bodies increase their scrutiny of manufacturing and quality control processes, the key to avoiding damaging...
China places duty on phenol imports
10-Jun-2003 - China has implemented anti-dumping measures against imports of phenol, a crystalline compound used in pharmaceuticals, resins and plastics, according to the state official Xinhua news...
Caliper to buy Zymark in $71m deal
10-Jun-2003 - Caliper Technologies has announced its intention to acquire laboratory automation, liquid handling and robotics specialist Zymark in a deal valued at around $71 million (€61m)...
Chiracon joins Berlin's Startup-Partners
10-Jun-2003 - Germany's Chiracon, a specialist in novel raw and starting materials for high-value pharmaceuticals, has joined the circle of Berlin's so-called Startup-Partners (Partner für Berlin Gesellschaft...
ImClone's Waksal faces sentencing
10-Jun-2003 - Sam Waksal, the disgraced former chief executive of US biotechnology company ImClone Systems, is due for sentencing today and could receive a jail sentence as...
GSK hit by UK Seroxat probe
10-Jun-2003 - The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has asked for prescribing restrictions on GlaxoSmithKline's widely-prescribed antidepressant Seroxat (paroxetine), which contributes more than £2 billion...
09-Jun-2003
Child-resistant solid dose pack from Owens-Illinois
09-Jun-2003 - Owens-Illinois has launched a new line of child-resistant 'squeeze and turn' packages that incorporate a one-piece closure and bottle system. The package uses conventional liners...
Protherics says higher profits will follow capacity boost
09-Jun-2003 - Protherics has said that it plans to expand its plant in Llandysul, south Wales, to reduce the manufacturing cost of its products and boost its...
Rapid microbe testing a must for industry
09-Jun-2003 - A meeting organised by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has heard calls for rapid microbiological methods (RMM) - such as laser scanning...
Isis and Lilly renegotiate Affinitak production deal
09-Jun-2003 - Isis Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly say they have reached a mutually beneficial renegotiation of their manufacturing relationship. Lilly has waived repayment of the $21 million...
Millennium cuts R&D, manufacturing
09-Jun-2003 - One of the USA's leading biotechnology firms, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, has said that it plans to cut around 600 jobs and wind down some of its...
Improving DNA vaccine delivery
09-Jun-2003 - The USA's Nature Technology has launched an improved delivery technology for DNA vaccines that is now available for license by companies working in this fast-growing...
ICOS gets manufacturing contract from Lilly
09-Jun-2003 - ICOS has entered into a biologics manufacturing agreement with Eli Lilly, in which the Bothell, Washington-based firm will manufacture two clinical candidates. The two companies...
06-Jun-2003
Pharma firms risking fines for manufacturing neglect
06-Jun-2003 - The high level of pharmaceutical company mergers and acquisitions plus industry-wide cost cutting has squeezed investment into manufacturing, but companies must be careful as failure...
Patheon Italia signs new deal with Roche
06-Jun-2003 - Patheon Italia, part of the Canadian Patheon group, has extended its manufacturing services agreement with Roche to continue to supply the Swiss firm with solid,...
Oligo licence for Transgenomic
06-Jun-2003 - Transgenomic has taken out a non-exclusive licence from Geron in which it gains manufacturing rights to phosphoramidate and thio-phosphoramidate oligonucleotides. The licence also covers the...
Fall-out hits GSK after AGM 'fat cat' revolt
06-Jun-2003 - Two members of GlaxoSmithKline's remuneration committee have resigned in the wake of the company's defeat by shareholders over its pay policy. Two weeks ago at...
US patent for pressure-sensitive reaction system
06-Jun-2003 - US firm Boston Biomedica has been issued an additional US patent covering the design and use of its Pressure Cycling Technology for the control of...
EU clinical trials regs could damage uk
06-Jun-2003 - The UK BioIndustry Association has expressed serious concerns that the European Union's Clinical Trials Directive, due to be implemented by May 2004, could have a...
West extends ready-to-sterilise service to Europe, Asia
06-Jun-2003 - West Pharmaceutical Services of the USA is rolling out its Westar RS sterilised component service, formerly only available from its US facilities, at sites in...
05-Jun-2003
Schering-Plough cuts deal with FDA on production
05-Jun-2003 - Troubled US pharmaceutical major Schering-Plough has reached an agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration to correct the firm's manufacturing compliance problems, which led...
Xenova to make cancer vaccine for Pharmexa
05-Jun-2003 - Xenova of the UK has been awarded a two-year contract by Denmark's Pharmexa for the manufacture of a vaccine in clinical trials as a treatment...
'Biobucks' make a return as Schroder raises $402m
05-Jun-2003 - Anglo-American venture capital firm Schroder Ventures Life Sciences has raised $402 million (€344m) for a new biotechnology investment vehicle, providing a powerful signal that venture...
New science chief at METabolic EXplorer
05-Jun-2003 - METabolic EXplorer, a French biotechnology company specialising in the development and production of new biological processes for the manufacturing of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, has bolstered...
CLL Biopharma bought by US firm
05-Jun-2003 - France's CLL Pharma, a specialist in drug reformulations and novel delivery technologies, has been acquired by US company Neuro Bioscience. The financial terms of the...
Baxter to invest $100m in parenterals plant
05-Jun-2003 - Baxter Healthcare of the US is planning a seven-year, $100 million (€85m) expansion of its parenteral contract manufacturing services for pharmaceutical and biotech companies with...
New ink jet printer for pharma, food packaging
05-Jun-2003 - US company Trident has launched a new ink jet printing system, called SolidJet, that is specially designed to print packaging for pharmaceutical, food and beverage,...
04-Jun-2003
Lonza bridges manufacturing gap at Visp
04-Jun-2003 - Swiss chemicals group Lonza has said that a new small-scale production plant at its Visp site will come on stream in July and will enable...
GEA extends filtration plant range
04-Jun-2003 - Denmark's GEA Filtration has introduced a new microfiltration plant for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries that, it claims, can perform studies on the full range...
DTI sets up 'good bioanalytical practice' programme
04-Jun-2003 - The UK Department of Trade and Industry has commissioned a new national programme designed to develop and share good practice in bioanalytical methodology. The programme,...
Rexam buys pharma packager for €125m
04-Jun-2003 - UK-based packaging company Rexam has reached an agreement to acquire all the shares of Risdon Pharma Development, a plastic pharmaceutical packaging business, for €125 million...
Cell manufacturing hike for Cambrex
04-Jun-2003 - Cambrex has initiated a project aimed at constructing a new facility to accommodate four current Good Manufacturing Practice-compliant suites dedicated to cell therapy manufacturing. The...
Pall sales and earnings leap in third quarter
04-Jun-2003 - Just over a year after acquiring the Filtration and Separations Group (FSG) business from Vivendi for $360 million (€307m), Pall Corp has reported a healthy...
03-Jun-2003
Diosynth to make Somavert API for Pfizer
03-Jun-2003 - Akzo Nobel's Diosynth unit has signed a multi-year contract to manufacture and supply the active pharmaceutical ingredient for Pfizer's growth hormone receptor antagonist Somavert (pegvisomant)....
AstraZeneca takes on TB in India
03-Jun-2003 - AstraZeneca has opened a new multi-million dollar research facility in Bangalore, India, which will focus principally on finding new treatments for tuberculosis, a disease which...
Clariant appoints Italian pharma chief
03-Jun-2003 - Aldo Magnini has been appointed managing director of Clariant's pharmaceuticals ingredients manufacturing business in Italy, based around the company's two manufacturing plants in Origgio and...
Merck extends licence to Crucell's cell platform
03-Jun-2003 - Dutch firm Crucell has expanded its licensing agreement with US drug major Merck & Co relating to PER.C6, the former's proprietary cell technology platform used...
Eisai invests in manufacturing capacity
03-Jun-2003 - Japanese drugmaker Eisai is planning to double the production capacity for its two top-selling drugs by 2004 with an investment of ¥9 billion (€65m). Work...
EU hangs back from mandatory EMEA filings
03-Jun-2003 - At a 2 June meeting, the European Union's Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council reached an agreement on the proposals by the European...
02-Jun-2003
Merck restructures R&D as diabetes drugs fail
02-Jun-2003 - Germany-based drugmaker Merck KGaA has launched a major restructuring of its R&D activities after shelving two of its early-stage diabetes product candidates, EML 16336, an...
Ireland's QUMAS unveils compliance package
02-Jun-2003 - Cork, Ireland-based
Pfizer selects PerkinElmer services for Italian site
02-Jun-2003 - One of Pfizer Global R&D's major research facilities, based in Nerviano, Italy, has signed an expanded agreement with PerkinElmer in which the latter will provide...
Irish drug industry must attract more process development
02-Jun-2003 - A science and technology advisory group has called on the Irish government to ensure that the country remains competitive in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries...
Draft monographs for BASF coatings
02-Jun-2003 - The European Commission has published a draft monograph in the
Cobra aims to raise £4.65 million for new plant
02-Jun-2003 - UK firm Cobra Bio-Manufacturing has announced its intention to undertake a placing and open offer to raise £4.65 million (€6.45m) to fund the purchase of...
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